Posted on 07/27/2009 6:14:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I see the H1B solution is spreading to other professions. Instead of offering a higher wage to entice more people to enter the field of nursing, the health racket now just wants to undercut wages and benefits by bringing in foreign workers who will do the job for less.
Maybe 70, 60 or 50 ?
I guess all the nurses to replace all those tonsillectomy performing pediatricians & other docs isn’t going to pan out for Obama and the democrats.
These idiots in Washington need a dose of their own medicine.
I happen to know many of these nurses, and while they are good people, hardworking, they are NOT up to snuff to be RNs at US standards.
They usually require additional training, plus there are still some language barriers.
And do I really believe that they "won't ask for more"?
H1B’s have decimated the IT and Engineering profession so why not do the same for Healthcare? Of course accidentally killing someone might have greater consequences than writing poor code. We are destroying the middle class from top to bottom.
Actually at the Medical University of SC some nurse anesthetists make over $210K per year)
Rationed healthcare will solve this problem, because the average life expectancy will drop down to about 50 years old.
No, the hospitals are looking for “cheap” help. There are plenty of US nurses, but the hospitals want to pay third-world pay rates.
Good. My wife is going into nursing. Nice to know that there is a bottomless pit of demand for that line of work...
In the defense of hospitals, if we removed the bag limits on lawyers to reduce the malpractice load, the medical cost crisis would vanish!
“Obama is slated to meet with congressional leaders on June 25 to discuss reforming U.S. immigration laws.”
Did this meeting get reported on? What was discussed? Inquiring minds want to know what BO has decided “immigration reform” will look like. All his other “reforms” mean more big government taking away our freedom.
Shall we job out "reporting and editing" to people from India who will work for $6,000 a year? I'll bet we'd have "journalist shortages" too if the wages were dropped by importing foreign workers.
Raise the pay and they'll be nurses, and nurses and nurses - everywhere.
Students lining up for nursing spots but program openings limited
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090726/NEWS01/907260547/1001/NEWS
Why would anyone go to the expense and effort of becoming a nurse if their efforts are going to be undercut by imports?
www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200905 - [Cached Version]
Published on: 5/20/2009
A-B Tech nursing department said this year some graduating nurses didn’t even get interviews at hospitals where they had applied, and some hospitals that may have hired nurses before they were licensed aren’t doing that this year.
Some graduates of A-B Tech said they had applied to area hospitals and had not heard back. Those who were granted interviews were told they were up against dozens of other candidates and didn’t receive offers.
The situation is in sharp contrast to past years.
“Usually, anyone who wanted a job had a position offered to them” . “We’re not seeing that this year.”
Unable to find full-time employment, some graduates from A-B Tech have taken part-time positions or gone back to jobs they held before they received their nursing degree, while others are looking into taking jobs that may not have been their first choice.
This is from an article in our local paper. Our local hospitals are not hiring many new nurses. Some nursing homes have a hiring freeze. Theres’s no nursing shortage here, it’s a job shortage.
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